Roosecote is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1949. Farmhouse.
Roosecote
- WRENN ID
- high-chancel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1949
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Roosecote, 3, Dungeon Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 226 689
- Coordinates
- 54.1105, -3.18423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roosecote is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building is roughcast over stone and features a slate roof. It has a T-shaped plan with a crosswing on the right, a wing to the rear left, and a lean-to in the rear angle. The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic and has a window arrangement of two windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor.
The doorway, located to the right of the main range, has an ashlar surround with moulding that continues around a sunken, round-arched panel on the lintel. There are two 4-light chamfered mullion windows on each floor, both with continuous hoodmoulds. The crosswing features a 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the ground floor, a 16-pane casement window above, and a mullioned 2-light attic window, all of which have 19th-century hoodmoulds. The verge of the roof oversails, and there is a projecting lateral stack on the right of the crosswing, along with a 19th-century stone shaft. The left end of the main range also has a stack with a 19th-century stone shaft. At the rear, there is a corbelled end stack to the wing. On the right return, there is a 3-light mullioned window with a hoodmould and a tall casement window above.
Inside, there is a fireplace bressumer in the rear wing and a small slate stairway to its right. The lounge features a massive spine beam, and the roof has collared principal-rafter trusses.
Local climate
Roosecote sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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